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abstract

  • An alarming defensiveness has crept into America's official image of itself, especially in its representations of the national past. Every society and official tradition defends itself against interferences with its sanctioned narratives; over time these acquire an almost theological status, with founding heros, cherished ideas and values, national allegories having an inestimable effect in cultural and political life.1

publication date

  • October 1993